Harada-Yasutani Lineage

Ross Bolleter, Sensei (born 1946) is a senior teacher of the Diamond Sangha of New Zealand, resident priest at the Zen Group of Western Australia, a published author, and a Dharma heir of Robert Aitken and John Tarrant. Based in Perth, Australia, Bolleter is also an avant-garde musical composer known for his music performed on ruined pianos. Bolleter has given ... Read More »

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Niklaus Brantschen completed his formal training as a Zen teacher in the Sanbo-Kyodan tradition under the direction of Yamada Koun Roshi in Kamakura and was given the name Go-Un-Ken (“Cloud of Enlightenment”). A member of the White Plum Asanga, he got Inka-Shomei from Tetsugen Bernard Glassman in the White Plum Sangha in 1999 and received the additional Dharma name Jinshu ... Read More »

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Gillian Coote is the co-ordinating teacher of the Sydney Zen Centre. Coote met Robert Aitken Roshi in l980, regularly attending his annual sesshin in Sydney as well as training periods and sesshin in Hawai’i. She also studied with John Tarrant and Subhana Barzaghi, from whom she received dharma transmission in June 2004 at Kodoji, Temple of the Ancient Ground. Gillian ... Read More »

Brigitte D’Ortschy, (May 31, 1921—July 9, 1990), a.k.a. Koun An Roshi, was the first German master of the Sanbo-Kyodan school of Zen and a Dharma heir of both Haku’un Yasutani-roshi and Koun Yamada-roshi. D’Ortschy had moved to Japan in 1963 and in the following year had met Haku’un Yasutani, studying under the prolific teacher at Fukusho-ji in Tokio and in ... Read More »

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Rolf Drosten is a German Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage, authorized as a teacher by Robert Aitken, Roshi. Drosten is founder of Wolken-und-Mond-Sangha (Clouds and Moon Sangha) and was appointed as a teacher in the Sanbo-Kyodan school of Japan in 1990. In 1993 he became an apprentice-teacher in the Diamond Sangha of Aitken-roshi and then received transmission of the ... Read More »

Jack Duffy, Roshi is a Zen teacher in Washington state practicing in the Harada-Yasutani lineage, a dharma heir of Robert Aitken, Roshi. As a leader of the Zen Center of Spokane and the Three Treasures Sangha of the Pacific Northwest, Duffy first began practice with Aitken-roshi in 1981 and received permission to teach from him in 1992. Five years later, ... Read More »

Fr. Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (November 11, 1898—July 7, 1990) was a German Jesuit priest and Sanbo Kyodan Zen master, a Dharma successor of the late Yamada Koun Roshi. As a missionary in Japan, his initial interest in Zen practice stemmed from his desire to better understand the Japanese people, who he began working with in 1929 when he established a settlement ... Read More »

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